NAME

AFFILIATION

DESCRIPTION

Subroutines that expect large numbers of arguments are hard to use because programmers routinely have to look at documentation to remember the order of those arguments. Many arguments is often a sign that a subroutine should be refactored or that an object should be passed to the routine.

CONFIGURATION

By default, this policy allows up to 5 arguments without warning. To change this threshold, put entries in a .perlcriticrc file like this:

[Subroutines::ProhibitManyArgs]
max_arguments = 6

CAVEATS

PPI doesn't currently detect anonymous subroutines, so we don't check those. This should just work when PPI gains that feature.

We don't check for @ARG, the alias for @_ from English.pm. That's deprecated anyway.

TO DO

Don't include $self and $class in the count.

CREDITS

Initial development of this policy was supported by a grant from the Perl Foundation.

AUTHOR

Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Chris Dolan. Many rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module

Module Install Instructions

To install Perl::Critic::Policy::Subroutines::ProhibitManyArgs, simply copy and paste either of the commands in to your terminal